INDIAN UNREST.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17297, 8 November 1921, Page 6

INDIAN UNREST.

IMPRISONMENT OF THE ALIS.

A "CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE " PROTEST. (By C»We—Prw« Association—Copyright > t'Reuter'n Telegrams.) DELHI, .November 6. The All-India Committee of the National Congress reviewed the political situation consequent upon the imprisonment of tho Ali brothers, and decided to adopt a limited programme *i disobedience so far as civil matters art concerned, including tho non-paymoir of taxes. Out of 1300 members preset'.;, only seven dissented. A message received Inst week state.! that tho Ali brothers were sentenced to two tornivS of two years' imprisonment, the terms to run concurrently. Indian papers to hand by the last mail give long accounts of tlh> arrest of t!i' Ali 'brothers, ami also outline thcharges against them. A Bombay <;,- vernment Press note of September l"itii stated that with the full concurrence of the Government of India, the Gove: nor of Bombay in Council had decide! to prosecute Mahomed Ali and Shauka: Ali of Rampur, and others for offence* under sections 12011, and 131 and !>C'< of the Indian Penal Code in rasper? of their support of a resolution passe I at the All-India Khilafnt Conference held at Karachi from the Bth to the 10th July, 1921, inclusive, which inter alia declared it unlawful at this tinir for a Mussalman to remain in the British Army, or to enter the Army, or induce others to join the Army, and declared it was the duty of every Mussalman to bring this home to the Mn.«Balman9 in the Army. With like concurrence, the Governor-in-Coundl also authorised the prosecution of .Alahomed Ali and Shaukat Ali under sections 124 A and 124 A and 153 A of t.h. Indian Penal Code respectively, in re spect of speeches delivered by them about the same time in Sind, as tending to create disaffection, contempt, and hatred, and to excite to violence against the Government established by law in British India.

It was announced from Simla on September 17th that proceedings would \x> taken asrainst the following: Dr. Kitchlew, Pir Ghulam Mujadin. Manlvi Hasan Ahmed, Nisar Ahmed, and a Hindu calling himself Shri Shankanchftriya, in addition to Messrs Mohamed Ali and Shaukat AH. Nisar Ahmed was already undergoing sentence of imprisonment. The annoiuioementa in the Indian papers were delayed for a week, by a censorship imposed by the Bombay Government, which, doubtless, feared disturbances when the arrests were made. In addition to the sentences passed ni the Ali brothers, the other five accused were sentenced to two yoors' imprisonment.